Word: caged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clyde Beatty, who spends 15 minutes in the same cage with 16 lions and five tigers, definitely expects, sooner or later, to be publicly eviscerated. Last year he was hospitalized for three weeks after a cat got behind him. But most of the casualties in his cage are internecine, the lions ganging together to maul a lone tiger. Beatty has lost 16 tigers this way, one lion. Except during the filming of The Big Cage when Lloyd's covered both him and his animals, Beatty has never paid a cent for life insurance. With a whip, a kitchen chair...
...nearby cage was Editor Werner Hirsch of the Communist Rote Fahne (daily...
Approximately 50 candidates for the team have been working out regularly under Poole since early in February. Two weeks ago the squad left Briggs Cage to practice outside on the regular field, and is showing much promise of developing into championship material...
...case Dr. Chaffin, operating in a glass-enclosed cage, wants to say something which does not concern his students, he presses his left elbow to his side. Underneath his operating gown at that side he wears a wide, flat, brass spring, pressure on which disconnects microphone from loudspeaker...
Varying the action with musical interludes ranging from "Frankie and Johnnie" to "Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage," a clever cast mocks the dramatic genre of two generations ago in a superbly entertaining gem of burlesque. The play contains all the legendary characters of the old-time thriller, from the farmer's daughter to the Bowery tough, and all the legendary lines from the villain's "Curses! Foiled again!" to the heroine's "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine." Francis G. Cleveland, Wesley Boynton, Edward Massey, and Sally Fitzpatrick, perfectly attuned to their parts, carry the play...